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Randomized controlled trials in ophthalmology: a bibliometric study

Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are situated at the top of hierarchy of evidence-based medicine, where its number and quality are important in the assessment of quality of evidence in a medical field. In this study, we aim to assess the status of RCTs in Ophthalmology. Methods: On 15...

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Autores principales: AlRyalat, Saif Aldeen, Abukahel, Areen, Elubous, Khaled Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32318264
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20673.1
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Abukahel, Areen
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description Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are situated at the top of hierarchy of evidence-based medicine, where its number and quality are important in the assessment of quality of evidence in a medical field. In this study, we aim to assess the status of RCTs in Ophthalmology. Methods: On 15 (th) of May 2019, we performed a PubMed search for randomized controlled trials published in the field of ophthalmology using relevant filters and search terms. We categorized the results into specific topics in ophthalmology according to Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) database classification system. We used Altmetric explorer to identify journals and articles with the highest number of RCTs and highest citations. Results: We found a total of 540,427 publications in the field of ophthalmology, of which only 11,634 (2.15%) of them were RCTs. ‘Retinal diseases’ was the topic with the highest number of RCTs, followed by ‘glaucoma’ and ‘conjunctival diseases’. The trial with highest number of citations was on retinal diseases. Only around 18% of all ophthalmology RCTs are published in the top 10 ophthalmology journals, with a maximum percentage of RCTs was (5.53%) published in Ophthalmology. Conclusion: RCTs in ophthalmology primarily concern the retina, glaucoma, and a few other sub-topics, with little focus on sclera, orbit, and the eyelids. Most of the high impact RCTs are published in non-ophthalmology journals.
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spelling pubmed-71560222020-04-20 Randomized controlled trials in ophthalmology: a bibliometric study AlRyalat, Saif Aldeen Abukahel, Areen Elubous, Khaled Ali F1000Res Research Article Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are situated at the top of hierarchy of evidence-based medicine, where its number and quality are important in the assessment of quality of evidence in a medical field. In this study, we aim to assess the status of RCTs in Ophthalmology. Methods: On 15 (th) of May 2019, we performed a PubMed search for randomized controlled trials published in the field of ophthalmology using relevant filters and search terms. We categorized the results into specific topics in ophthalmology according to Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) database classification system. We used Altmetric explorer to identify journals and articles with the highest number of RCTs and highest citations. Results: We found a total of 540,427 publications in the field of ophthalmology, of which only 11,634 (2.15%) of them were RCTs. ‘Retinal diseases’ was the topic with the highest number of RCTs, followed by ‘glaucoma’ and ‘conjunctival diseases’. The trial with highest number of citations was on retinal diseases. Only around 18% of all ophthalmology RCTs are published in the top 10 ophthalmology journals, with a maximum percentage of RCTs was (5.53%) published in Ophthalmology. Conclusion: RCTs in ophthalmology primarily concern the retina, glaucoma, and a few other sub-topics, with little focus on sclera, orbit, and the eyelids. Most of the high impact RCTs are published in non-ophthalmology journals. F1000 Research Limited 2019-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7156022/ /pubmed/32318264 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20673.1 Text en Copyright: © 2019 AlRyalat SA et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Randomized controlled trials in ophthalmology: a bibliometric study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32318264
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20673.1
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